Walcott, Derek

Derek Walcott is a St. Lucian poet and dramatist of international repute. He attended The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica and lived for many years in Trinidad and Tobago, where he founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. His literary output has won him many outstanding international awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.

From the description of Derek Walcott Collection, 1957-1981. [1957-1981] (The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine). WorldCat record id: 48230960

Derek Walcott, born in 1930, is a Caribbean poet, playwright and theatre director. He was born in Castries, St. Lucia, and educated at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. His first three volumes of verse were published in the Caribbean between 1948 and 1951, but his widespread recognition came with In a Green Night (1962). He founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1959. Walcott has been an assiduous traveller to other countries but has always felt himself deeply-rooted in Caribbean society with its cultural fusion of African, Asiatic and European elements. For many years, he has divided his time between Trinidad, where he has his home as a writer, and Boston University, where he teaches literature and creative writing. In 1992, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

From the description of Derek Walcott Papers [manuscript]. 1980-ongoing. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 225566367

Derek Alton Walcott was born in St. Lucia, West Indies, in 1930. Walcott attended St. Mary's College, Castries and the University College of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. He began writing poetry at the age of eighteen, and began writing plays not long after.

Walcott moved to Trinidad in 1953. He worked as a teacher and then as a journalist, writing for the Trinidad Guardian. He received a Rockefeller Foundation award to study theater in New York from 1958-1959, and returned to Trinidad and founded the Trinidad Theater Workshop. Derek Walcott has published numerous collections of poetry and plays and has won numerous awards. In 1992, he received the Nobel Prize for literature. He divides his time between Massachusettes, where he teaches part time at Boston University, and the island of St. Lucia.

From the description of Play, 1950s (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 123526618